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You're welcome, SEC brethren
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:15 pm
So, this hasn't been discussed, in the last couple of hours?
Fox Sports
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Without Texas A&M leaving for the SEC, the SEC's own network wasn't lucrative enough to undertake. It was the eight million cable and satellite subscribers in Texas that made the SEC Network financially viable. Here's some simple math for you: Every major cable and satellite subscriber in Texas pays around $16.80 a year for the SEC Network. Every major cable and satellite subscriber in Texas -- except for those with Comcast, which doesn't carry it -- pays $3.48 for the Longhorn Network. So right now in Texas, the only state paying more than a quarter a year for the Longhorn Network, the SEC Network makes nearly five times as much every month. (Nationwide the SEC Network, on pace to do nearly $550 million in revenue this year, makes nearly 22 times as much money a month as the Longhorn Network.
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This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 6:17 pm
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Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:16 pm to Motengator
dr:redarrow
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:21 pm to Motengator
So A&M funded its own competition?
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:21 pm to Motengator
/r/nobodygivesafrick
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:23 pm to Motengator
They're grateful ... even if they won't admit it.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:23 pm to Motengator
Thanks for inadvertently pumping so much money into the already fat UGA wallet that we started hiring staff and improving facilities to the point that we are quite likely on our way to wrecking some shite
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:24 pm to Motengator
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:26 pm to tylerdurden24
I genuinely think that will happen (re: UGA).
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:33 pm to hg
quote:*tips fedora*
/r/nobodygivesafrick
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:34 pm to Motengator
Sorry but the only time I read anything Clay Travis writes is when he decides to make fun of bammers
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:36 pm to Motengator
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Clay Travis
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:41 pm to Motengator
Aggy board.
For real though this rocks. frick the haters. SEC SEC SEC
For real though this rocks. frick the haters. SEC SEC SEC
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:42 pm to Motengator
Clay Travis. 
His supposition that without TAMU and the LHN the SECN wouldn't be profitable or exist is based on his opinion. The LHN was hardly the blueprint or only example of either a team network or a conference network.
TAMU certainly helped expand the launch footprint as did Mizzou but the idea of an SEC Network had been around for years and the conference watched several others succeed and fail while waiting for our own tv contracts to expire. However, Clay is either unaware or doesn't acknowledge several simple facts. The network is successful because of the product which would have been there with or without expansion and goes beyond football (women's basketball, men's basketball, softball, and baseball among others are critical to the network's success and all things viewers want to see as well as successful conference sports). That said, the notion that viewers and cable companies wouldn't pay or contract to see more SEC games given conference primacy in football is absurd, especially given that the South watches more college football than anyone (we even watch the B1G more than B1G country does because we love college football).
IOW, thanks for the extra footprint in terms of help guaranteeing a good launch but never rest any argument or brag because Clay Travis said so.
His supposition that without TAMU and the LHN the SECN wouldn't be profitable or exist is based on his opinion. The LHN was hardly the blueprint or only example of either a team network or a conference network.
TAMU certainly helped expand the launch footprint as did Mizzou but the idea of an SEC Network had been around for years and the conference watched several others succeed and fail while waiting for our own tv contracts to expire. However, Clay is either unaware or doesn't acknowledge several simple facts. The network is successful because of the product which would have been there with or without expansion and goes beyond football (women's basketball, men's basketball, softball, and baseball among others are critical to the network's success and all things viewers want to see as well as successful conference sports). That said, the notion that viewers and cable companies wouldn't pay or contract to see more SEC games given conference primacy in football is absurd, especially given that the South watches more college football than anyone (we even watch the B1G more than B1G country does because we love college football).
IOW, thanks for the extra footprint in terms of help guaranteeing a good launch but never rest any argument or brag because Clay Travis said so.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:49 pm to Prof
So... the Aggies and the SEC are making money hand over fist and flipping the bird to that loathsome school in Austin?
OK. I can live with that.
OK. I can live with that.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:55 pm to Arksulli
Frick texass
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:00 pm to Prof
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The network is successful because of the product which would have been there with or without expansion
The SEC had good product and the SEC Network may have launched anyway. But Slive added +50% population to the SEC footprint by adding two schools, TAMU and Mizzou.
That's serious money in the bank for the conference. The SEC Network wouldn't be nearly the success it is without TAMU and Mizzou.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:02 pm to Motengator
Hey, that's why the SEC wanted y'all.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:02 pm to Old Sarge
Somehow we have to integrate Tceh and Baylol into this rivalry informational diss.
Anyone have any ideas for Aggy?
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:02 pm to Motengator
So by adding A&M (8,000,000 x $16.80= 134,400,000) and Missouri (2,000,000 x $16.80= 33,600,000), the SEC Network makes an additional $168,000,000 per year.
Top money makers for the SEC Network:
Texas A&M: $134,400,000
Florida: $109,200,000
Georgia: $56,000,000
Missouri: $33,600,000
South Carolina: $27,048,000
LSU: $26,040,000
:Big 6:
Kentucky: $24,712,800
Tennessee: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Vanderbilt)
Vanderbilt: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Tennessee)
Arkansas: $16,632,000
Alabama: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Auburn)
Auburn: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Alabama)
Ole Miss: $8,374,800 (divided in half with State)
State: $8,374,800 (divided in half with Ole Miss)
East: $286,966,400
West: $220,987,200 (A&M owns 61% of that
)
Total: $507,953,600
East riiiiiiiiiich. West poooooooor.
Top money makers for the SEC Network:
Texas A&M: $134,400,000
Florida: $109,200,000
Georgia: $56,000,000
Missouri: $33,600,000
South Carolina: $27,048,000
LSU: $26,040,000
:Big 6:
Kentucky: $24,712,800
Tennessee: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Vanderbilt)
Vanderbilt: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Tennessee)
Arkansas: $16,632,000
Alabama: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Auburn)
Auburn: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Alabama)
Ole Miss: $8,374,800 (divided in half with State)
State: $8,374,800 (divided in half with Ole Miss)
East: $286,966,400
West: $220,987,200 (A&M owns 61% of that
) Total: $507,953,600
East riiiiiiiiiich. West poooooooor.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:03 pm to bah7tea
Most know that.
Not sure why it bothers some to admit it.
It's a very symbiotic relationship.
Not sure why it bothers some to admit it.
It's a very symbiotic relationship.
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